Hi All,

I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed this.

I was looking at the BBS system, and noticed the semaphore file
'nodeinfo.now', which should be 0 bytes, or close to it, is almost 2MB in size...

It's not a matter of space on the HD, but it seems a bit large for a
semaphore file...


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Black Panther(RCS)
Castle Rock BBS

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On 15 Sep 2019, Black Panther said the following...

'nodeinfo.now', which should be 0 bytes, or close to it, is almost 2MB in

I asked about this some time ago but never got any responses. nodeinfo.now grows by a few bytes with every login. I never found anything describing
what this file is for, so no idea if it should be pruned/deleted from time to time. Also, ~/busylog.txt (log of creation/removal of bsy flags) is another file that will grow and grow unless rotated or deleted from time to time.
I recall g00r00 talking about removing the busylog functionality from mutil once other busy system issues were worked out, but it's still there and can
be another source of bloat.

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On 15 Sep 2019, Scarecrow said the following...

'nodeinfo.now', which should be 0 bytes, or close to it, is almost 2M

I asked about this some time ago but never got any responses.
nodeinfo.now grows by a few bytes with every login. I never found anything describing what this file is for, so no idea if it should be

I'm not entirely sure what it's actually for either. Just kinda strange...

pruned/deleted from time to time. Also, ~/busylog.txt (log of creation/removal of bsy flags) is another file that will grow and grow unless rotated or deleted from time to time. I recall g00r00 talking
about removing the busylog functionality from mutil once other busy
system issues were worked out, but it's still there and can be another source of bloat.

I do believe that one was only meant to be a temporary thing, but it is still there. I actually added a few lines to my maintenance script to remove that
one each night.


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Black Panther(RCS)
Castle Rock BBS

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On 15 Sep 2019, Black Panther said the following...

I actually added a few lines to my maintenance script to
remove that one each night.

Even though busylog.txt is a fast grower, it does provide some useful info. I added busylog.txt to my log rotation script so I have a few days worth of it
if for some reason I need to go back and check things. I considered doing
the same for nodinfo.bsy. All it contains is line after line of ascii
character 0 with a line feed. I can't imagine what use it would be, except perhaps the timestamp of when the file itself was created/modified. I've avoided messing with it just in case it does have some vital importance, lest
I cause a rip in the space-time continuum. :)

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Mine only gets to be 2kb ..
I don't have a zillion message bases on my BBS, though.

Tim N
admin@f4fbbs.com

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On 18 Sep 2019 at 05:19p, SirRonmit pondered and said...

Mine only gets to be 2kb ..
I don't have a zillion message bases on my BBS, though.

Tim N
admin@f4fbbs.com

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I think this may be a windows vs Linux issue... I see no issue in my Windows install either.

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On 18 Sep 2019, SirRonmit said the following...

Mine only gets to be 2kb ..

I just truncated it a few days ago, and it's already back to 17kb...

I don't have a zillion message bases on my BBS, though.

I don't think that has any bearing, as Mystic isn't doing my mail transfers
or tossing.

Still a bit stumped on this one...


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Black Panther(RCS)
Castle Rock BBS

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* Origin: Castle Rock BBS - bbs.castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)

On 19 Sep 2019, Avon said the following...

I think this may be a windows vs Linux issue... I see no issue in my Windows install either.

That's probably it. It seems as though the semaphore keeps getting a few
bytes added to it, each time Mystic checks it...


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Black Panther(RCS)
Castle Rock BBS

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Castle Rock BBS - bbs.castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)

On 18 Sep 2019, Black Panther said the following...

I don't think that has any bearing, as Mystic isn't doing my mail transfers or tossing.

I've sort of kept an eye on it, and just about anything a user does adds another couple bytes to it. Changing menus, listing files, anything.
Not just limited to message related activities. And the 2 bytes added are always a 0 and a carriage return no matter what action triggered it.

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I don't think that has any bearing, as Mystic isn't doing my mail transfers or tossing.

Still a bit stumped on this one...

I'm sure it was turned on for testing and g00r00 just forgot to turn it off.

We know that it happens in Linux and doesn't happen in Windows. Can someone
let us know if this also happens in the rPi build?

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good catch!

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